Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-07-23

nlleu. doe river canon IS o miles
long and 1900 feet deep. The mind
grows tired at the very thought of
trying to describe the wild grandeur
of the scenery along this wonderful
road, AS the train tolls laboriously
up the steep grades, plunging
through dark tunnels, spanning deep
chasms, or huggiAg the mountain in
short curves above dizzy heights,
with the rock-ribbed mountains tow
ering hundreds of feet above in al
most perpendicular walls on the 9TH
er side, one feels painfully the utter
incapacity of the mind to so group
words and phrases to fittingly de-
scribe the varied, grand and pictur-
esque beauty of the place. On one
side the eye sweeps overa vast noun
tain steep rearing its head into the
clouds, while upon the other the Doe
river leaps, foams and roars through
the rocks and dense shades hundreds
of feet below.
The press party reached Roam
Mountain Station about halt past
eight O'clock Wednesday morning,
July 18th. Eight large hacks and
about twenty saddle horses were in
waiting to convey the party to Cloud
land. Some four or five of the horse
men pushed ahead, and reached
Cloudland a few minutes past twelve
o'clock. The writer secured a good
saddle horse, and in company with
Maj. H. G. Bate, made the journey
up the mountain in little more than
five hours, reaching Cloudland at 2:15
p. m. The party stopped for an hour
at noon, and had lunch by the road
side. All of the hacks reached Cloud
land hotel shortly after four o'clock,
and the crowd soon began to scatter
over the mountain to the many adj
vantageous places for views. The
hotel can accommodate between four
and five hundred guests, is three
stories high, with long verandas on
two sides.
The peculiar directions of the State
line between North Carolina and
Tennessee gets n considerably con.
fused in Geography. 1t is generally
supposed that North Carolina lies east
of Tennessee, yet the eastern end Of
Cloudland hotel is in Tennessee,
while the western end is in North
Carolina. in the Tennessee side OF
the house you r surrounded on three
sides by North Carolina, and in the
North Carolina side you are sur,
rounded on three sides by Tennessee
The two States are hooked together
something like the manner of a pat
ent car coupler, making three paral
lei state lines for a short distance
across the center one of which the
hotel is built. The hotel building
! ten pin alley and stables contain
J 100000 feet of lumber, all of which
/ was cut by a small saw mill near thu
hotel, from the small pine trees grow
ing on the mountain, which averaged
only sixty feet of lumber to the tree
) Everything about the building il
scrupulously clean, the rooms are all
neatly furnished and altogether it il
a delightfully."- pleasant, comfortable
homelike place. The guests arr
most bountifully fed, the tables beins
the best we have ever found at
summer resort hotel.
With a favorable condition of tn,
atmosphere one al look upon sever
= different States from the summit O
Roam Mountain, and the eye look
over range after range Of mountains
l covering a territory of $4,000 squar
miles. The rock formations of Roar
Mountain show it to be the oldes
part of the continent, and accordin,
' to scientific theories it reared its loft,
: peaks up into space centuries befor
: the Alps emerged from the depths G
: the sea. Here the geologist, mineral
/. ogist, and botanist find the most fer
: tile fields for their investigations tina
: are to be found on the globe. With
: in the bounds of Mitchell county, n
: c., every mineral known to CON
merce except coal has been discover
ed. In this respect it is the most re
e markable county in the world. NJ
merous mica mines are now bein
worked there, and every n ofther
h show unmistakable evidences of hay
ing been operated by a pre-histori
d race of people hundreds of years b.
Il fore America was discovered b
Columbus.
l. The temperature at ClOudland hot
s. rarely ever exceeds 700 during tn